Fiona Crisp Subterrania at the Impressions Gallery. visited 23/01/10
solo exhibition by the British artist Fiona Crisp. The photography of Fiona Crisp is presented within the gallery space in large scale format this adds to the imagery's seemingly overwhelming affect, the imagery has been collected over the past seven years, using a diverse range of locations
I personally found the use of light in the photographs to be key to their awe inspiring effect, communicating in a sense the idea of being whiteness to something, this feeling compounded by the images large scale format, taking over the gallery space, becoming independent of it. I would draw a parallel with the experience of entering a Cathedral even though the images where on the wall they carried the sensation of looking up, Turing again to the importance for me with the affect of light almost ethereal
An extract form Fiona Crisps website says of the images
'Ranging from Early Christian Catacombs to a Second World War underground hospital, the apparently disparate locations for the images were chosen primarily for the sense of physical power that they evoke but also for the fact that they are all now tourist sites where complex relationships between heritage, leisure and history are brought into question. Here, contrary to a location’s specific historic purpose that allowed access to a defined group of users, these sites have now been opened up for tourism where the boundaries between modern experience and historical truth are unavoidably blurred'
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